Blues Quotes

But my big thing was always the blues.

— Luther Allison

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

— Devendra Banhart

You know, Blues Traveler is its own thing.

— John Popper

I started in blues bands when I was 15.

— David Essex

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

— R. Kelly

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

— Janet Jackson

“When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

Blues was made for the recessed.

— Eric Burdon

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

— Hozier

You'll be with me every morning, Mister Blues. You'll be here every night and every noon.

— Buddy Guy

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

— Son House

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

— Redfoo

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

— Tim Kasher

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that…

— Orianthi

“The corpse is too gentle, With a touch, so parental, I dare not refuse, With a lot to lose, I miss the…

— Rahim Haider

I couldn't be any happier to re-sign with the Blues. It's where I've grown as a player and as a pro.

— T. J. Oshie

I've always been a fan of Buddy Guy as a guitarist, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan and those blues guys. I'd…

— Chris Carmack

I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

— Coy Bowles

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New…

— Frank Vincent

The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what…

— Wynton Marsalis

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to…

— Tom Waits

There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing…

— Mirel Wagner

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of…

— Alex Chilton

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they…

— Walter Kirn

“Blues all ’bout that blessed belief if’in you put everything you got—your heart, your soul, your flesh, your bone—if you give everything,…

— Eyre Price

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to…

— Pete Townshend

“beautiful blues in fine tunes; tunes of bass and brass brass knuckles clad in sweat and tears true to a son of…

— Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey

It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and…

— Robert Palmer

A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it.…

— Dion DiMucci

After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles…

— Ian Gillan

“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies…

— David Mutti Clark

“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else…

— Jordan Flaherty

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean…

— Audrey Hepburn

“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character…

— Frederick Douglass

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…

— Ralph Ellison

“We were in Mississippi. We’d been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there…

— Keith Richards